rite
this week has been anything but good for me, really. on tuesday i was headed to tilton when my engine decided it was time to ping once or twice, then blow more smoke than the last two years of the clinton administration. it's gone. kaput. the engine blew and what remains of my tiny, rusty, old, weathered and beaten car is laid to rest at some junk yard in laconia.
visiting hours are for anyone who needs a rearview mirror or a steering wheel...strike that...the rearview was broken too.
yet even carless and burdensome to my housemates, i'm still here at a quarter past seven on a saturday morning posting on live journal--something i don't even do when i'm wide awake and bored. why? because my recent melancholy over unemployment has temporarily been replaced by peace from one little thing: graduation.
in just a couple hours i will don the funny sleeved robe and engage the rite that says i am a professional. people can throw sunshine on that all they like, but i find my masters to be nothing more than extra learning--the degree, at least at this moment, isn't all that important to me. what i'm really looking forward to is the rite of graduation. when i graduated as an undergrad i felt broken. i wasn't ready. i loved college--every aspect of it, and that's mostly why i love being able to teach a couple classes there. but really, this graduation i'm more prepared for, and i feel more grown up and ready to move on. i don't know that there's been a time when i know myself better than i do right now
other than that, i had a good interview with the squam lakes natural science center to be their sam seaborn, gotta go get a car, dining at the annual clock dinner this evening at some resort-thing in sanborton, and i'm telling my mom i love her.
good day today. be well.
visiting hours are for anyone who needs a rearview mirror or a steering wheel...strike that...the rearview was broken too.
yet even carless and burdensome to my housemates, i'm still here at a quarter past seven on a saturday morning posting on live journal--something i don't even do when i'm wide awake and bored. why? because my recent melancholy over unemployment has temporarily been replaced by peace from one little thing: graduation.
in just a couple hours i will don the funny sleeved robe and engage the rite that says i am a professional. people can throw sunshine on that all they like, but i find my masters to be nothing more than extra learning--the degree, at least at this moment, isn't all that important to me. what i'm really looking forward to is the rite of graduation. when i graduated as an undergrad i felt broken. i wasn't ready. i loved college--every aspect of it, and that's mostly why i love being able to teach a couple classes there. but really, this graduation i'm more prepared for, and i feel more grown up and ready to move on. i don't know that there's been a time when i know myself better than i do right now
other than that, i had a good interview with the squam lakes natural science center to be their sam seaborn, gotta go get a car, dining at the annual clock dinner this evening at some resort-thing in sanborton, and i'm telling my mom i love her.
good day today. be well.